Folder vs. Carpeta

Today’s Spanglish word of the day is one that I constantly have to think twice about. Maybe it was all those school folders and binders I had to buy year after year from kindergarten up until college. I still remember reminding my mom in Spanish to take me to the store because I needed to buy “folders” for school. She would always look at me weird and be like, “que es un ‘folder’?” After I pointed to the cheap 10 cent folders in the school supply aisle she realized that I was actually talking about a carpeta.